Approximating the medial axis from the Voronoi diagram with a convergence guarantee

Algorithmica (New York)

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 179-200

  Dey, Tamal K ^a   Zhao, Wulue ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delaunay triangulation; Geometric modeling; Medial axis; Samples; Voronoi diagram

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SET THEORY;

DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION; GEOMETRIC MODELING; MEDIAL AXIS; SAMPLES; VORONOI DIAGRAM;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 21144444221     PISSN: 01784617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00453-003-1049-y     Document Type: Article

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